Why keep working with a difficult deck?

[Guest Night Shade]

https://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=123783

By Olivia1

 

 

Why keep working with a difficult deck?

 

 

I just acquired MRP's Fairytale Tarot. I thought it would be pretty easy for me to pick up. I think I am doing well with it but it sure is a lot harder to master than I initially thought. I almost feel like I am learning to read cards all over again. For those of you who have worked with difficult decks (and stuck with it) what was your reason to keep going?

 

I took on this deck (even though I was warned that it would be a pretty ambitious project for a beginner) because I had this idea that if I learned this this deck, it would take my understanding of tarot to all new heights. And this deck has helped me better understand the RWS meanings (and given each other cards more depth) but so far, I haven't learned enough to justify myself to stick with it. Would you say learning a difficult deck is the equivalent to gaining 3 years of general reading experience ?

[Guest Night Shade]

Personally, I think that working with a difficult deck is a great challenge for both your mind and your Tarot skills.  Having to really think about a card helps you to uncover all of its different nuances, and gives your intuition more symbols and meanings to draw upon during readings.  Plus, I get a great deal of personal satisfaction when I've worked all the way through a deck that I thought i could never understand.

[Saturn Celeste]

Night Shade[/member] Oh boy a new one!  Thank you for picking up where I left off!  If I find a deck is hard to read, I do tend to leave it until I have an 'easy' reading that I can delve into the deck more.  I make it a point to be able to read with all my decks and a difficult deck is no different but one for a 2 of 3 card reading.  Any more than that gives me more if a chance to misread a card.

[bookshop]

I don't want to waste the money I spent!  X-D

[Guest Night Shade]

I don't want to waste the money I spent!  X-D

 

I'm with you there!  :))

[Jewel]

Personally, I think that working with a difficult deck is a great challenge for both your mind and your Tarot skills.  Having to really think about a card helps you to uncover all of its different nuances, and gives your intuition more symbols and meanings to draw upon during readings.  Plus, I get a great deal of personal satisfaction when I've worked all the way through a deck that I thought i could never understand.

This is exactly how I feel so long as I really like the deck.  I have found that some decks are just difficult for me because I straight out just don't connect with it (looking at you Wild Wood).  But if I like the deck I will certainly take on the challenge, enjoy the ride, and reap the rewards of expanding my skills as a reader.

[DownUnderNZer]

 

 

The THOTH is the only deck I have had a truly truly hard time with and not because of how dark it can be or how I was learning it because there was actually nothing wrong with the readings - it was certain card images (people) that bothered me and I had a really difficult time with Coins not being Pentacles. So, with not taking to particular cards and disliking the fact that there were no Pentacles - it was hard getting into reading them.

 

The RW deck was my very first Tarot deck for a very brief time, so it kind of ruined the THOTH that followed some years later.

 

Actually, for years when I did start to buy more and more decks, I refused to buy decks with COINS.

 

As for the THOTH - I think it is one of the most spectacular decks ever to be made, and I do still happen to have the very same one I bought all those years ago.

 

 

DND X/

[Thoughtful]

The most difficult deck l own is the Tarot of 111 Millenium.  It is definitely a perplexing one for me.  Yet it does attract me and one day l will ponder on it more. 

Not quite sure why a man is trying to milk a horse though, and what the connection to 8 cups is  :o  Pic below.

 

http://www.janetboyer.com/Tarot_of_the_III_Millennium.html

[Little Fang]

Cause I'm stubborn and want to make the relationship work out.  ;)

[Saturn Celeste]

The most difficult deck l own is the Tarot of 111 Millenium.  It is definitely a perplexing one for me.  Yet it does attract me and one day l will ponder on it more. 

Not quite sure why a man is trying to milk a horse though, and what the connection to 8 cups is  :o  Pic below.

 

http://www.janetboyer.com/Tarot_of_the_III_Millennium.html

I have the deck.  Try laying out the suit cards 1 - 10 side by side and look at the panoramic picture it makes.  That's the best place to start with the deck.  The Majors are fine, I LOVE the world card of the deck, one of my overall most favorite world cards!

 

[Thoughtful]

l will try that Saturn,  but will it show why a man is milking a horse  X-D

[gregory]

l will try that Saturn,  but will it show why a man is milking a horse  X-D

 

Easy peasy.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_milk

 

 

Horse milk is to be found in specialist stores,; people ferment it to make kumis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumis and you can make cheese from it. Not butter though -there's not enough fat.

 

https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2015/09/08/technique-cheese-horse-donkey-milk/

 

OK - I carry on working with tough decks because often you learn more from all that effort.

[Thoughtful]

Well l never, l did not know that, where have l been  ;D 

As always Gregory you are a mine of info, now l can look at that card differently  :thumbsup:

[gregory]

I have excellent googlefu, and have also BOUGHT horse cheese once while on holiday :D

 

(I didn't like it - but that's a separate issue !)

[Thoughtful]

I have excellent googlefu, and have also BOUGHT horse cheese once while on holiday :D

 

(I didn't like it - but that's a separate issue !)

 

 

X-D

[gregory]

ACTUALLY who knows - that might be part of that card's meaning.

 

"Nasty stuff ahead. Beware !"  X-D